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Who Wants to Return Home?

Friday, 07 August 2009

THE JOURNEY HOME
July 22, 2009 by Wayne Forde.

“It’s the dream of every man to return to the land where he was born; and that’s how it is with me. Every night I say a silent prayer for the day when I can go home again-to feel the warm morning sun and to walk where I used to run. Many things can keep a man and his homeland apart, but the years and the miles can’t change what’s in a man’s heart. Someday, some how I’ll return to the land I love.” (Cuando Sali deCuba)

The time has come to Organize and Mobilize.
For those who left Guyana in despair; for those who cannot return because of fear. For the oppressed and the hopeless masses at home and abroad who yearn for change and civility, peaceful living and living in peace; the poor and the down trodden, victims and the victimized the time has come for CHANGE THAT WE CAN EMBRACE. From Mabaruma to Ana Regina; Orinduik, and Mount Roraima ; Lethem to the Corentyne.Across mountains and rivers, the white sands and the alluvial mudflats; from lush forests and creeks; villages and cities Change must come.

Change we need; change, from the classroom to the board room, hospitals to institutions -across streets in Georgetown to roads in Bartica and Parika, back allies and back dam.

Guyana is plagued by a multiplicity of problems which span fifty years and two dominant Political Parties offering more of the same, with no end in sight; no end in sight for a peaceful and prosperous Guyana- home.

There are many raw and cold issues, which, for decades and several administrations later, have festered and deteriorated a society and a Nation in which crime and corruption are the order of the day; where poverty and unemployment have transformed the NATION into a Highly Indebted Poor Country (HIPC)-The land of many waters has more of it’s best and brightest minds living in foreign lands fearful of returning to invest and contribute. Estimates put the Diaspora at 800,000 to a million.-more living abroad than at home. Why?

Who will make the change? The answer lies not with the PPP or the PNCR, but in the power of the Diaspora to organize and mobilize...

The Time has come for a new vision, fresh ideas and innovative solutions. For too long too many have lived in self- imposed exile while the less fortunate remain helpless subjects of the failed policies of ineffective Administrations and ruinous Politics of Apan Jhatt-Hindi for “vote for your own.”

This is not a vain attempt to decry and criticize the Government or the country, but an appeal for action to rectify and reform systems and institutions badly damaged and decadent for many years.

We need solutions that work in the twenty-first century, in a rapidly changing global economy. We need change that we can embrace; Reform and Innovation.

Here are critical areas for Reform:

1.       Racial Politics.

2.      Crime and Corruption

3.      Law Enforcement and the Penal Justice System.

4.      Health Care and Social Services

5.      Education and Brain Drain

6.      Slow Economic Growth

7.      Poverty and Unemployment

8.      Decrease in Productivity across major sectors

9.      Infrastructure Development

10. Negative Image of Guyana/Guyanese

11. Excessive Mortality due to Aids

12. Development of New Industry e.g. Tourism-

13. High Foreign Debt

14. Insufficient Foreign Investment

15. Human Rights

16. Energy and Technology

17. National Security

The solutions to all of these problems are in the brains of the Guyanese abroad and at home if we only dare to take the challenge. In the words of the greatest musical performer that ever lived, Michael Jackson,’ make that Change’

There is no mandate for reform; no plan of action by any Party which will make the CHANGE WE CAN EMBRACE.

But we must first stamp out and eradicate Racial Politics...

Where did Racial Politics start?

Who will stop it?

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